Gender Preference?

in my wishlisting, I've definitely noticed i have a strong preference for boy or androgynous dolls - sort of follows my general OC preferences (as well as my personal gender situation), so I'm not really surprised!

I absolutely LOVE historic and fantasy men's clothes so Im excited for the outfits I can put together for my first doll when he finally arrives he's gonna be such a little dandy lol

 

When I first discovered the hobby, I dreamt about owning a bunch of boys, which was sort of "in vogue" at the time. However, I've managed to end up with a collection that is heavily, heavily female. One of my girls is even a male event head on a female body! I do have a couple of boy dolls on my wishlist, though even if I get them, they still won't come anywhere close to evening out the ratio.

I'm bisexual and agender, so it's not like I believe in the socially determined boundaries of gender and sex anyway, and I'm married to a man, so I certainly don't dislike men. I've just always found that I have an easier time bonding with girl dolls than boy dolls.

 

Female dolls. I like esthetics. I don't project identity on a doll. To me, they're dolls and they look pretty. Females are pretty/feminine and beautiful to look at. So I can do the most to get the look and esthetic I envision beauty to be, on a female doll. I'm a girly girl. The most boring thing on the planet I'm my mind, is to dress a man, Lmao! Sorry men....

 

This explains why I like historical men's clothes (Pre-Industrial Revolution specifically) so much more than modern men's clothes........ And why my boys dress so girlish despite wearing more modern stuff mostly!

 

I mean, plain t-shirts and straight legged jeans. Anything else kind of beats that, lol. But I also just love the female body. It's shape is so fluid and flowing, compared to the more boxy nature of a males body. Don't get me wrong, I'm married to a man. But esthetically, I think women are just prettier to look at, lol!

 

I really like male BJDs but I’m a more picky with how I want them to look! Like I could buy pretty much any female bjd and be happy, but male bjds are more of a hit or miss for me

 

I only collect girls
I think other people's boy dolls are cute and cool, but I was never interested in boy dolls as a child.

 

When I first got into dolls guys were out of the question, then I considered a few cute pretty boy sculpts, and then I just went further and further and now I really only focus on male sculpts! Now the most I will do with a girl doll is I will customize a female head, put it on a boy body and make them a male character. I totally have a preference that I never would have thought of! Male dolls all the way for me

 

I used to have a preference for female dolls, but now I prefer to get male dolls. I like both types of dolls, but I have an easier time finding male dolls with designs and aesthetics that I like.

 

I think I will always have girls! Girls are just so pretty and I enjoy more feminine fashion options.
Never say never though....

 

I think I lean more towards male bjds since a lot more of my OCs were male, but I also really like how girl bjds look so I started to shell some of my female OCs too. I'm getting my first 2 girls soon and I've been so excited for them! I already bought a lot of clothes, shoes, and created mock ups of their face ups. I feel like as time goes on my collection with have plenty of both with a slight skew towards more boys maybe.

 

I feel I've been all over the board with this, but I'd say I mostly lean towards male dolls. Currently at about 34% girls, so definitely the minority here. I think a big part of the draw of this hobby was the boys for me. Growing up, I was always so unhappy with every single boy doll I saw. I just hated them all and never wanted any. So when I saw BJD for the first time, my jaw dropped at how beautiful they were...and wait is that a boy?!! The need was instant. If we go a bit deeper, most of my boys lean towards a more traditionally feminine look. I feel it was something I was looking for but could never quite find until I found BJD's. Honestly, I just got my first girl doll out of some strange need to have variety. I love her, and my other girls, but I know if I need to sell any...they will likely be some of the first on the list.

 

Updating about 2 years later... it's a pretty masculine household here. Boys outnumber girls more than 2 to 1, and the two girls are masculine headsculpts. Everyone wears masculine-tending-to-gender-neutral clothes. The girls are mainly pants-wearers though one will wear the occasional skirt; the most femme of the boys is femme only in a few traits, and he also wears only pants.

Clothing-wise, I guess I've never been interested in putting any doll into a dress, regardless of their gender. I love the norms of (A)BJDs and the BJD community, because here you can get dolls that did not have to wear dresses all the time! You can have masculine dolls wearing fabulous masculine clothes - what a revelation! This hobby was liberating to me.

I still want to try having a girly girl, though, for diversity's sake and for exploring the Other -- and a feminine-dressing girl is very much an "Other" to me. If I ever get a third girl, the plan is to keep her in dresses most of the time. We'll see how it goes...

 

girls all the way! i've always preferred girl dolls over boys, i just don't find male dolls all that interesting. i would probably just end up dressing boy dolls the same way i do my girls, so why even bother

 

I currently only have boy dolls at the moment but I’d like some girls to join my family! I do think I have a tendency to be drawn to boy dolls more though.

 

I had to think about that one. I think I have about 50 boys and 40 girls, give or take. (I tried counting them, but I lost count a few times and gave up!)

 

I greatly prefer female dolls or feminine-presenting dolls. I know realism has more variety than stylistic, but I like the latter more and the male ones in that category are very same face-y. That, and I just like feminine aesthetics more. Currently, I only own girls, but I have caught an eye for a special boy out there!

 

I never thought of it as a preference, but most of my dolls were and are "boys".
Perhaps because I like contrasts and interested in the aesthetics of the male graceful body or male fashion.
I dreamed of starting to sew myself, realizing my ideas, but more often, I buy ready-made clothes or order from dressmakers.
Now I want a female character, but it is hard to choose, as they are all cute.
Probably the last thing I regret is that I bought a separate androgyny head and a male body, but after realizing that see the character as a girl)))

 

I have only boys, Girl dolls are very pretty but... I just like boys more. So far I have found only one girl doll that I liked so much, that I thought about buying it, but I didn't, because she was limited and i dont have money.

 

I prefer female dolls because there're a lot of beautiful things to knit and crochet for them.